ATM Networks

Concepts, Protocols, Applications

This new edition of a popular book offers a strengthened focus on one of the hottest networking strategies: ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). ATM is one of the industry's current fast-moving topics, with multi-million-dollar investments being made at a time when the technology is still being debated.

And yet ATM seems so easy once one explains that it isn't about banking . After all , what could be so hard about a protocol that just transmits data as fixed - sized packets ? But ATM is hard to explain . A large part of the difficulty ...